Bala Ji Tour & Travels

We are situated right at the Bara Devi Chauraha, specifically in N Block along the Kidwai Nagar Road. If you live in Kanpur, you already know how busy this crossing can get at almost any time of day. Bala Ji Tour & Travels is just a small office where we spend most of our daylight hours. The front door stays open most of the time so people can just pop their heads in and ask about car rentals or bus timings. It is a bit of a tight squeeze inside when we have more than two customers at once, but we always make it work somehow. We have a couple of desks and some old registers where we log everything down by hand. The walls are mostly bare, except for a few photos of local sites and a clock that is a few minutes fast. Our days are spent talking to drivers and making sure everyone knows where they are supposed to be. It is a lot of coordination and sometimes things get a bit stressful when a vehicle is stuck in traffic, but that is the nature of the travel business. We drink a lot of chai to keep ourselves going. The furniture is not new and the floor has some scuffs, but it is a comfortable place for us. We have known the neighbors for years, so it feels like home.